KMK Law Cybersecurity & Privacy Blog

Every month, we see a new set of privacy best practices or a new set of regulations proposed or adopted by a state, Congress, the White House, or countries around the globe. The versions of best practices continue to multiply and the layers of regulation continue to expand. Every new group or political entity wants to out-perform the last – but has this one-upmanship gone too far?

All eyes are on California as the countdown to California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) continues. This attention is for good reason—the CCPA is a data privacy law with the potential to change the landscape of data collection practices in the U.S. Approximately 500,000 U.S. businesses in various industries will have to comply with this new law when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020. When the CCPA goes into effect, consumers may then exercise their private right of action. This means that consumers may bring a civil lawsuit against any business for a data breach and potentially ...